questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help NHS hospitals with trends in the level of inflation on (a) soft service and (b) security contract costs.
answerText: The Government has taken swift action in response to the inflationary pressures on the National Health Service, providing additional funding of £3.3 billion at the Autumn Statement in each of the next two years. In 2023/24 the funding issued to the NHS an...
heading: Hospitals: Cleaning Services and Security